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  • 2024 Legislative Priorities

    2024 Legislative Priorities

    The 2024 General Assembly session begins Wednesday, January 10 and ends March 9. Our power as an organization is in the people who take action with us, and thanks to you we've buil ...

  • The True Cost of Diabetes by Shelia Carter

    The True Cost of Diabetes by Shelia Carter

    On August 29, President Biden announced that Medicare has selected the first 10 medications that they will negotiate lower prices for. These negotiations were made possible by the ...

  • The Alyssa House | Featured Community Partner

    The Alyssa House | Featured Community Partner

    In the fight against childhood cancer, children are noncombatants. That is the response of The Alyssa House Board Chair, Lynn Divers, to the more common conception of cancer treatm ...

  • Brave Souls on Fire | Featured Community Partner

    Brave Souls on Fire | Featured Community Partner

    Not all mental health care is created equal. For Myra Anderson of Brave Souls on Fire, nothing underlines that statement more than the ways Black people have experienced marginaliz ...

Virginia Will Expand Medicaid at Last! (Message from Chairperson Del McWhorter)

Virginia Will Expand Medicaid at Last! (Message from Chairperson Del McWhorter)

On May 30, Virginia expanded Medicaid! Virginia Organizing members have worked to bring affordable health care to all Virginians for more than 10 years. Let’s celebrate this victo ...

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Medicaid Expansion Passes General Assembly Senate!

Medicaid Expansion Passes General Assembly Senate!

Richmond, Va. — Today Virginia's Senate voted to expand Medicaid. Virginia Organizing leaders and supporters celebrated the decision as a great victory for the people of the Commo ...

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We need to have Medicaid expansion in Virginia!

We need to have Medicaid expansion in Virginia!

Virginia Organizing supporter and volunteer, Dave Redding has some good questions for our senators: We need to have Medicaid expansion in Virginia! One repeated argument in opposi ...

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Join us in Richmond on May 29 for Medicaid Expansion Rally

Join us in Richmond on May 29 for Medicaid Expansion Rally

(Image: Eunice Haigler, Virginia Organizing leader from Fredericksburg at a May 22 Medicaid Expansion rally in Richmond.) The General Assembly is on the verge of passing Medicaid ...

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Washington Post features Virginia Organizing Leader, Terry White

Washington Post features Virginia Organizing Leader, Terry White

Terry White, known to his friends as "Bean," tells his story about needing affordable health care in this Washington Post piece by Laura Vozzella. Thank you for speaking out, Bean ...

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Virginia Nurses Association Appeals to Senator Norment

Virginia Nurses Association Appeals to Senator Norment

In an open letter to Senator Thomas K. Norment in the Virginia Gazette, Christine Payne of Williamsburg calls on the state senator to allow Medicaid expansion to come to a vote. P ...

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Expand Medicaid to Help Treat Opioid Addiction

Expand Medicaid to Help Treat Opioid Addiction

Virginia Organizing supporter Eric Blevins in Marion, Virginia writes in the Richmond Times Dispatch about his journey to recovery from a substance use disorder. He argues that Me ...

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Washington Post Editorial: Expand Medicaid VA!

Washington Post Editorial: Expand Medicaid VA!

Photo: Virginia Organizing leaders at a Lynchburg health care rally Just ahead of the General Assembly special session on Wednesday, April 11, the Washington Post published this e ...

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Without Medicaid expansion, Danville resident caught in middle

Without Medicaid expansion, Danville resident caught in middle

Published by Danville Register and Bee. Danville resident and cancer survivor Margaret Lipford said she started paying into the system more than 30 years ago. For decades, she wor ...

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Northam, House Republicans bide time on Medicaid expansion, but Senate to open debate

Northam, House Republicans bide time on Medicaid expansion, but Senate to open debate

Published by the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Virginia Senate is about to reignite the public debate over Medicaid expansion, but Gov. Ralph Northam and House Republicans aren’t r ...

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